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decisions we make will be better and employees will feel more satisfied.

Notes

1.A number of surveys show that managers and employees believe that a significant amount of time spent in meetings is wasted. For a summary of some of the relevant surveys, see: Ray Williams. “Why

Meetings Kill Productivity,” Psychology Today, April 15, 2012. The New York Times article cited below also includes some of these statistics. 2.Lisa Belkin, “Time Wasted? Perhaps it’s Well Spent,”

The New York Times, May 31, 2007. The author cites a

Microsoft survey showing that employees spend approximately 5.6 hours a week in meetings. Other surveys show similar results. 3.Part of the research for this article is based on Wiser:

Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter, by Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie (Harvard

Business Review Press, 2014). The authors cite ample scientific evidence that conventional group decisionmaking practices result in sub-optimal decisions. 4.Perspective taking and precision questioning are two techniques suggested by the work of Phillip Tetlock and

Daniel Gardner in Superforecasting. (Penguin Random

House, 2015). Examples of hotel tax application come from an upcoming GFOA book on forecasting. 5.Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Switch: How to Change

Things When Change is Hard (Crown Publishing, 2010). The authors show research that indicating that peer pressure is an effective way to help create organizational change.

Laura Larsen is budget and program evaluation manager of the City of Madison, Wisconsin. She would like to acknowledge the assistance of Drew Corbett, finance director, City of San Mateo, California; Ryan Kinsella, senior financial analyst, City of Portland, Oregon; and Heather Johnston, city manager of Burnsville, Minnesota.

The article was originally published in the June 2016 issue of Government Finance Review (www.gfoa.org).

SDML Directory Changes

Arlington Delete:ES Jason Niemann

Beresford Delete:CM Daniel Williams Add: CM Jason Muellenberg

Brookings Delete:HR Katie Krogman Add: HR Donna Langland

Clear LakeDelete:FO Karen Harford

Dell RapidsAdd: CM Bill Schmidt

Florence Delete:T Christy Busskohl Add: T Chris Meyer

Kimball Delete:CM Matthew Dykstra CM James Kroupa Add: CM Paul Dorwart CM Shelly Janish

Long LakeAdd: FO Donna Hoffman

Midland Delete:T Rock Gillaspie Add: T Dakota Fosheim

Miller Delete:AIR Jim Bonebright SS Jim Bonebright WS Jim Bonebright Add: AIR Terry Manning SS Terry Manning WS Terry Manning

Salem Add: CM Mary Jo Heiberger

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